Jeremiah 49:6 And afterwards I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the Lord.] Perhaps by Cyrus; for, in the times of Judas ...
Introductory Note.Introductory Note.It is commonly supposed by the commentators that what follows is the Canon of St. Cyprian referred to in the Secon...
Overview - Acts 22 1?Paul declares at large how he was converted to the faith, 17?and called to his apostleship. 22?At the very mentioning of the Gent...
Job 41:26 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold It is either broken by striking at him, or however cannot pierce him and stick in him; but s...
Acts 8:10 To whom they all gave heed Were not only attentive to the strange things he did, and to the wonderful things he gave out concerning himself;...
Her firstborn (ton prwtotokon). The expression naturally means that she afterwards had other children and we read of brothers and sisters of Jesus. T...
Extracts from the Acts. Session VI.Extracts from the Acts. Session VI. (Labbe and Cossart, Concilia, Tom. IV., col. 611.)[The Emperor was present in p...
Philemon, [N] [E] [H]the name of the Christian to whom Paul addressed his epistle in behalf of Onesimus. He was a native probably of Colosse, or at a...
Polycrates Bishop of Ephesus.Polycrates(1) Bishop of Ephesus. [a.d. 130-196.] This author(2) comes in as an appendix to the stories of Polycarp and I...
The Martyrdom of IgnatiusThe Martyrdom of Ignatius-------- Chapter I.-Desire of Ignatius for Martyrdom.When Trajan, not long since,(1) succeeded to th...
CHAPTER III: ST. JUSTIN MARTYR (AD 166) Although Trajan was no friend to the Gospel, and put St. Ignatius todeath, he...
Job 22:24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust Have such plenty of it, as not to be counted: and the [gold] of Ophir as the stones of the brooks; whic...
Luke 2:4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee Where he now lived, and worked at the trade of a carpenter; having for some reasons, and by one providen...
Acts 8:9 But there was a certain man called Simon Who, as Justin Martyr F6 says, was a Samaritan, and of a village called Gitton; and so a Jewish writ...
Matthew 18:2 And Jesus called a little child unto him One, very likely, that was in the house, and might belong to the master of it, and which was big...
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Virgin MaryThe Epistle of Ignatius to the Virgin Mary Her friend(1) Ignatius to the Christ-bearing Mary.Thou oughtest t...
Matthew [N] [E] [H](gift of Jehovah ). (A contraction, as is also Matthias, of Mattathias. His original name was Levi, and his name Matthew was proba...
Job 28:18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls Coral is a marine plant, is as hard as a stone, and of such value as to be reckoned among pr...
Thomas Haukes, Thomas Watts, and Anne Askew Thomas Haukes, with six others, was condemned on the ninth of February, 1555. In education he was erudite...
Lord's Day, the The expression the Lord's day is found only once in the Bible. In Revelation 1:10 John relates the beginning of his visionary experien...